Warder Mansion was designed by H.H. Richardson in 1888 and built on K Street for Benjamin Warder, the owner of the company that later became International Harvester.
In 1925, in an effort to save the mansion from demolition, George Oakley Totten purchased and moved the house, piece by piece in his Model T Ford, to its current 16th Street location. Despite the Warder-Totten House being listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, the building was slowly deteriorating.
Warder Mansion, with its mahogany interiors, marble arches, and even an imported Japanese Tea Room, was reduced to a sandstone shell.
The year 2001 brought new life and a new plan for the mansion.
The efforts and dedication of a talented renovation and redesign team have created the
Warder Mansion you see today.
The life once possible for only the priviledged few is now available for your near future.